Fort Scott newspapers
...people. Neither do we pretend to get out of it by claiming that a large proportion of the men engaged in it were from Missouri or the coal banks." Published:...
Atchison newspaper
...of it.'" Atchison Daily Globe, January 22, 1901, untitled. "The 'joke' on Leavenworth has been carried to that point where it is proposed to put Leavenworth county into Missouri."...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), 177, quoted in Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990), 33. Henry L....
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Photograph by unknown creator. Originally published in Julian Rankin's Catfish Dream: Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018)....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Image Credits
...the public domain. "Love More, Hate Less," Pulse Orlando Memorial site, Orlando, Florida, December 29, 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "No One Stands Alone," Atlanta Pride, Atlanta, GA, October 2017. Photograph by Eric...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a B.A. at the University of Kentucky in 1958 and an M.A. in 1960. He has written for the Southern Education Report, Race Relations Reporter,...